Pearce’s Film Reviews

241 Films have been rated or reviewed by Pearce.

Score (1973): One of the few movies in this genre to be both funny and sexy, sometimes simultaneously. I saw it in mixed company and everyone had a good time.
Lickerish Quartet, The (1970): Amazing soundtrack.
Naked Lunch (1992): Funny and some great parts, but I cannot give more than three stars to a movie which takes a classic of queer literature and puts a heterosexual love story at the centre.
Sex and Fury (Furyô anego den: Inoshika Ochô) (1973): Extremely stylish – the nude swordfight at the start is a stunner – but it meanders after a while and the subplot with Christina Lindberg isn't terrible interesting.
Existenz (1998): I think of this as Videodrome 3 as along with Naked Lunch, it follows the same structure. All three movies have very similar abrupt endings too!
Crimes of the Future (2022): I love it when Cronenberg lets his weird sense of humour off the leash – most notable Naked Lunch, eXistenZ and here. Kristen Stewart and Don McKellar are especially funny.; DVD $29.95 | Blu-Ray $34.95
Dracula - Pages From A Virgin's Diary (2002): One of the more interesting Dracula movies, this abandons the cliches and finds an interesting new structure. Staging Lucy's blood transfusion as a gang rape was astonishing and lays bare some unintentional subtext from the book.
Scanners (1981): Cronenberg says this was made from an unfinished script – it shows. I was surprised to find that star Stephen Lack was great in an earlier movie, The Rubber Gun; he's terrible here. Ironside & McGoohan rule though.
Horror of Hammer, The: Too many of these are the inferior US trailers, but the audio commentary by a trio of experts is a lot of fun.
Burning, The (1981): The first Miramax film and you'd believe a sex predator was involved in making it... brilliant gore effects.

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Pearce’s Film Reviews